Bridger told police he ‘could have burnt April’s body’
THE former slaughterman accused of murdering schoolgirl April Jones told police that he “could have burnt the body”, a court has heard.
Mark Bridger, 47, also said he woul d h ave been “lynched” if he had been seen taking the five-year-old out of his car, Mold Crown Court heard.
The jury in Bridger’s trial yesterday heard transcripts of his police interviews for a third day, read to the court by Paul Hobson, prosecuting, and interviewing officer Detective Constable Louise Thomas.
Mr Hobson also read a statement from detention officer Stephen Carr, who said Bridger spoke to him about how he was trying to remember what he had done with April’s body.
Bridger says he accidentally killed the youngster when he ran her over, and accepts that he must have got rid of her body – but cannot remember how because he was drunk and panicking.
Mr Carr said Bridger, who was once a firefighter for the London Fire Brigade, told him how he would have “laid her to rest” for the body to be found and he may have covered it with a tarpaulin.
Bridger, from Ceinws, d e ni e s a b d uct i ng and murdering the schoolgirl in a “sexually motivated” attack. April’s body was never found despite the biggest search operation in British policing history.
The trial continues.